Blowing Stumps with Dynamite

Posted on 1 February 2013 by David Maddison

I happened upon a lovely paper by George Roberts in the Bulletin of the Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station of the State University, published in June 1911.  The paper has the very promising title “Blowing Stumps with Dynamite”, and it does not disappoint.  Its concluding two figures are classics.  Here they are:

stumpBeforeBlowing

explosion

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4 Responses to Blowing Stumps with Dynamite

  1. Mr. Magoo says:
    1 February 2013 at 9:56 am

    I really like this post – as well as the commercial advertisements below it! 🙂

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  2. Ostriches have funny heads says:
    1 February 2013 at 9:59 am

    here’s another comment — so you can see how commenting on your new blog works! bravo (and man…I love the explosion figure…hard to argue with that!)

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    • An Ostrich says:
      1 February 2013 at 10:00 am

      here’s a response to a comment too — why do you call yourself ‘Ostriches have funny heads’…that’s an offensive user name

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